Adam and Zayneb embark on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia, but as one wedge after another drives them apart while they make their way through rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder if their meeting was just an oddity after all.

Ferraris' novel, set in Saudi Arabia, features desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi, who is hired by wealthy friends to find their missing daughter. When the girl turns up dead, apparently drowned in a flash flood in the desert, Nayir suspects that all is not as it seems. And as he looks into her death, he develops an uncomfortable partnership with a female technician at the local coroner's office.

"In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great."--Publisher.

"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Saudi Arabia"--Provided by publisher.

"After serving his country, Larry Larson wants to make up for lost time by a new career in bounty hunting where the rewards are high and the risks higher, even though he knows the terrain. He takes us on an adventure across the Saudi deserts, through religious and political intrigue, until he meets Carmen. She shows him a new path by following A Sufi's Ghost to unexpected places."--Page 4 of cover.

"The astonishing story of one man's breakneck race against time and an implacable enemy. A young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against...

Saudi lead inspector Ibrahim Zahrani discovers that a serial killer has been burying women's bodies in Jeddah for more than ten years at the same time his mistress disappears, and he seeks assistance from Katya, one of the few women on the force.

A terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, causing an international incident to ignite. FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Fleury and his team discover that the Saudi authorities are suspicious and unwelcoming of the Americans into what they consider a local matter. The agents find...